EP2007168A9 - Dispositif de conference vocale - Google Patents

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EP2007168A9
EP2007168A9 EP07706924A EP07706924A EP2007168A9 EP 2007168 A9 EP2007168 A9 EP 2007168A9 EP 07706924 A EP07706924 A EP 07706924A EP 07706924 A EP07706924 A EP 07706924A EP 2007168 A9 EP2007168 A9 EP 2007168A9
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  • This invention relates to an audio conferencing apparatus for conducting an audio conference between plural points through a network etc., and particularly to an audio conferencing apparatus in which a microphone is integrated with a speaker.
  • a sound signal input through a network is emitted from a speaker placed in a ceiling surface and a sound signal collected by each microphone placed in side surfaces using plural different directions as respective front directions is sent to the outside through the network.
  • the apparatus cannot cope properly with various sound emission and collection environments set by the number of other points connected to a network or environments (the number of conference participants, a conference room environment, etc.) of the periphery of the apparatus and a change in the sound emission and collection environments.
  • an object of the invention is to provide an audio conferencing apparatus capable of speedily performing optimum sound emission and collection even in a situation in which sound emission and collection environments have various situations and these environments change.
  • An audio conferencing apparatus of the invention is characterized by comprising a speaker array comprising plural speakers arranged in a lower surface using an outward direction from the lower surface of a housing comprising a leg portion for separating the lower surface of the housing from an installation surface at a predetermined distance as a sound emission direction, sound emission control means for performing signal processing for sound emission on an input sound signal and controlling sound emission directivity of the speaker array, a microphone array comprising plural microphones arranged in a side surface using an outward direction from the side surface of the housing as a sound collection direction, sound collection control means for performing signal processing for sound collection on a sound collection sound signal collected by the microphone array and generating plural sound collection beam signals having sound collection directivity different mutually and comparing the plural sound collection beam signals and detecting a sound collection environment and also selecting a particular sound collection beam signal and outputting the particular sound collection beam signal as an output sound signal, and regression sound elimination means for performing control so that a sound emitted from the speaker is not included in the output sound signal based on the input sound signal and the particular
  • the regression sound elimination means of the audio conferencing apparatus of the invention generates a pseudo regression sound signal based on the input sound signal and subtracts the pseudo regression sound signal from the particular sound collection beam signal.
  • the regression sound elimination means of the audio conferencing apparatus of the invention comprises comparison means for comparing a level of the input sound signal with a level of the particular sound collection beam signal, and level reduction means for reducing a level of the signal in which the comparison means decides that a signal level of the input sound signal and the particular sound collection beam signal is lower.
  • sound emission control means when an input sound signal is received from another audio conferencing apparatus, sound emission control means performs signal processing for sound emission such as delay control etc. so that a sound emission beam is formed by a sound emitted from each of the speakers of a speaker array.
  • the sound emission beam includes a sound beam of setting in which a sound converges at a predetermined distance in a predetermined direction of the room inside, for example, in a position in which a conference person sits, or a sound beam of setting in which a virtual point sound source is present in a certain position and a sound is emitted by diverging from this virtual point sound source.
  • Each of the speakers emits a sound emission signal given from the sound emission control means to the room inside. Consequently, sound emission having desired sound emission directivity is implemented.
  • a sound emitted from the speaker is reflected by an installation surface and is propagated to the talker side of a lateral direction of the apparatus.
  • Each of the microphones of a microphone array is installed in a side surface of a housing, and collects a sound from a direction of the side surface, and outputs a sound collection signal to sound collection control means.
  • the speaker array and the microphone array are present in the different surfaces of the housing and thereby, a echo sound from the speaker to the microphone is reduced.
  • the sound collection control means performs delay processing etc. with respect to each of the sound collection signals and generates plural sound collection beam signals having great directivity in a direction different from each of the directions of the side surfaces. Consequently, the echo sound is further suppressed in each of the sound collection beam signals.
  • the sound collection control means compares signal levels etc.
  • the regression sound elimination means performs processing in which a sound emitted from the speaker array and diffracted to the microphone is not included in an output sound signal based on the input sound signal and the particular sound collection beam signal. Concretely, the regression sound elimination means generates a pseudo regression sound signal based on the input sound signal and subtracts the pseudo regression sound signal from the particular sound collection beam signal and thereby, a echo sound is suppressed.
  • the regression sound elimination means compares a signal level of the input sound signal with a signal level of the particular sound collection beam signal and when the signal level of the input sound signal is higher, it is decided that it is mainly receiving speech, and the signal level of the particular sound collection beam signal is reduced and when the signal level of the particular sound collection beam signal is higher, it is decided that it is mainly sending speech, and the signal level of the input sound signal is reduced.
  • the volume of sound collection of a echo sound is reduced and a load of processing by the regression sound elimination means is reduced and also the output sound signal is optimized speedily.
  • the virtual point sound source is implemented by the sound emission beam
  • a conference having a high realistic sensation is implemented while reducing the regression sound.
  • the sound emission beam has a convergence property, an emission sound is controlled by the sound emission beam and a collection sound is controlled by the sound collection beam, so that the volume of sound collection of the echo sound is greatly suppressed and the load of processing by the regression sound elimination means is greatly reduced and also the output sound signal is optimized more speedily.
  • optimum sound emission and collection are simply implemented according to conference environments such as the number of conference persons or the number of connection conference points by using the configuration of the invention.
  • the audio conferencing apparatus of the invention is characterized in that the housing has substantially a rectangular parallelepiped shape elongated in one direction and the plural speakers and the plural microphones are arranged along the longitudinal direction.
  • substantially an elongated rectangular parallelepiped shape is used as a concrete structure of the housing.
  • the audio conferencing apparatus of the invention is characterized by comprising control means for setting the sound emission directivity based on the sound collection environment from the sound collection control means and giving the sound emission directivity to the sound emission control means.
  • sound collection control means detects a sound collection environment based on a sound collection beam.
  • the sound collection environment refers to the number of conference persons, a position (direction) of a conference person with respect to the apparatus, a talker direction, etc.
  • Control means decides sound emission directivity based on this information.
  • the sound emission directivity refers to means for increasing a sound emission intensity in a direction of a particular conference person such as a talker or means for setting substantially the same sound emission intensity in all the conference persons. Consequently, for example, when there is one conference person (talker), a sound is emitted to only the conference person and the sound does not leak in other directions. When there are a talker and a person who only hears, a sound is equally emitted to all the conference persons.
  • the audio conferencing apparatus of the invention is characterized in that the control means stores a history of the sound collection environment and estimates a sound collection environment and sound emission directivity based on the history and gives the estimated sound emission directivity to the sound emission control means and also gives selection control of a sound collection beam signal according to the estimated sound collection environment to the sound collection control means.
  • the control means stores a history of a sound collection environment. For example, the past histories of the talker directions are stored. Then, in the case of detecting that there are the talker directions in only plural particular directions or there is little variation in the talker directions based on the histories, it is detected that there is the talker in only the appropriate direction, and a sound emission beam or a sound collection beam is set. For example, when the talker directions are limited to one direction, the sound emission beam or the sound collection beam is fixed in only this direction. When the talker has two directions or three directions, a sound is substantially equally emitted to all the orientations and also the talker directions are detected by only sound collection beams of these directions. Consequently, a sound is properly emitted according to the number of conference persons etc. and selection of sound collection could be made in only conference person directions and a load of processing is reduced.
  • the audio conferencing apparatus of the invention is characterized in that the control means detects the number of input sound signals and sets the sound emission directivity based on the sound collection environment and the number of input sound signals.
  • the control means detects the number of input sound signals and detects the number of audio conferencing apparatuses participating in a conference through a network from this number detected. Then, sound emission directivity is set according to the number of audio conferencing apparatuses connected. Concretely, when the number of audio conferencing apparatus connections is one and a conference person corresponds one-to-one with the audio conferencing apparatus, a virtual point sound source is not particularly required and the convergent sound emission described above is performed and a sound is emitted to only the conference person. Contrary to this, when there are plural conference persons using one audio conferencing apparatus, a virtual point sound source is set in substantially the center position of the audio conferencing apparatus and a sound is emitted. On the other hand, when the number of audio conferencing apparatus connections is plural, for example, plural virtual point sound sources are set and a sound having a high realistic sensation is emitted or an emission sound is converged in directions different every connection destination as described below.
  • the audio conferencing apparatus of the invention is characterized in that the control means stores a history of the sound collection environment and a history of the input sound signal and detects association between a change in a sound collection environment and an input sound signal based on both the histories and gives sound emission directivity estimated based on the association to the sound emission control means and also gives selection control of a sound collection beam signal according to the estimated sound collection environment to the sound collection control means.
  • the control means stores a history of the sound collection environment and a history of the input sound signal, that is, a history of a connection destination, and detects association between these histories. For example, information in which a talker present in a first direction with respect to the apparatus converses with a first connection destination and a talker present in a second direction with respect to the apparatus converses with a second connection destination is acquired. Then, the control means sets convergent sound emission directivity every input sound signal (connection destination) so as to emit a sound to only the corresponding talker. The control means sets sound collection beam selection (sound collection directivity) every output sound signal (connection destination) so as to collect a sound in only the corresponding talker direction. Consequently, plural audio conferences are implemented in parallel by one audio conferencing apparatus and mutual conference sounds do not interfere.
  • an optimum audio conference canbe implemented by the only one audio conferencing apparatus with respect to environments or forms of various audio conferences by the number of conference persons using one audio conferencing apparatus, the number of points participating in an audio conference, etc.
  • Figs. 1A to 1C are three-view drawings representing the audio conferencing apparatus of the present embodiment
  • Fig. 1A is a plan diagram
  • Fig. 1B is a front diagram (diagram viewed from the side of a longitudinal side surface)
  • Fig. 1C is a side diagram (diagram viewed from a side surface of the short-sized side).
  • Figs. 2A to 2C are diagrams showing microphone arrangement and speaker arrangement of the audio conferencing apparatus shown in Figs. 1A to 1C
  • Fig. 2A is a front diagram (corresponding to Fig. 1B )
  • Fig. 2B is a bottom diagram
  • Fig. 2C is a back diagram (corresponding to a surface opposite to Fig. 1B ).
  • Fig. 3 is a functional block diagram of the audio conferencing apparatus of the embodiment.
  • the audio conferencing apparatus 1 of the embodiment mechanistically comprises a housing 2, leg portions 3, an operation portion 4, a light-emitting portion 5, and an input-output connector 11.
  • the housing 2 is made of substantially a rectangular parallelepiped shape elongated in one direction, and the leg portions 3 with predetermined heights for separating a lower surface of the housing 2 from an installation surface at a predetermined distance are installed in both ends of longitudinal sides (surfaces) of the housing 2.
  • a surface having a long-size among four side surfaces of the housing 2 is called a longitudinal surface and a surface having a short size among the four side surfaces is called a short-sized surface.
  • the operation portion 4 made of plural buttons or a display screen is installed in one end of a longitudinal direction in an upper surface of the housing 2.
  • the operation portion 4 is connected to a control portion 10. installed inside the housing 2 and accepts an operation input from a conference person and outputs the input to the control portion 10 and also displays the contents of operation, an execution mode, etc. on the display screen.
  • the light-emitting portion 5 made of light-emitting elements such as LEDs radially placed using one point as the center is installed in the center of the upper surface of the housing 2.
  • the light-emitting portion 5 emits light according to light emission control from the control portion 10. For example, when light emission control indicating a talker direction is input, light of the light-emitting element corresponding to its direction is emitted.
  • the input-output connector 11 comprising a LAN interface, an analog audio input terminal, an analog audio output terminal and a digital audio input-output terminal is installed in the short-sized surface of the side in which the operation portion 4 in the housing 2 is installed, and this input-output connector 11 is connected to an input-output I/F 12 installed inside the housing 2.
  • Speakers SP1 to SP16 with the same shape are installed in the lower surface of the housing 2. These speakers SP1 to SP16 are linearly installed along a longitudinal direction at a constant distance and thereby, a speaker array is constructed.
  • Microphones MIC101 to MIC116 with the same shape are installed in one longitudinal surface of the housing 2. These microphones.MIC101 to MIC116 are linearly installed along the longitudinal direction at a constant distance and thereby, a microphone array is constructed.
  • Microphones MIC201 to MIC216 with the same shape are installed in the other longitudinal surface of the housing 2. These microphones MIC201 to MIC216 are also linearly installed along the longitudinal direction at a constant distance and thereby, a microphone array is constructed.
  • a lower surface grille 6 which is punched and meshed and is formed in a shape of covering the speaker array and the microphone arrays is installed in the lower surface side of the housing 2.
  • the number of speakers of the speaker array is set at 16 and the number of microphones of each of the microphone arrays is respectively set at 16, but are not limited to this, and the number of speakers and the number of microphones could be set properly according to specifications.
  • the distances of the speaker array and the microphone array may be not constant and, for example, a form of being closely placed in the center along the longitudinal direction and being loosely placed toward both ends may be used.
  • the audio conferencing apparatus 1 of the embodiment functionally comprises the control portion 10, the input-output connector 11, the input-output I/F 12, a sound emission directivity control portion 13, D/A converters 14, amplifiers 15 for sound emission, the speaker array (speakers SP1 to SP16), the microphone arrays (microphones MIC101 to MIC116, microphones MIC201 to MIC216), amplifiers 16 for sound collection, A/D converters 17, a sound collection beam generation portion 181, a sound collection beam generation portion 182, a sound collection beam selection portion 19, an echo cancellation portion 20, and the operation portion 4 as shown in Fig. 3 .
  • the input-output I/F 12 converts an input sound signal from another audio conferencing apparatus input through the input-output connector 11 from a data format (protocol) corresponding to a network, and gives the sound signal to the sound emission directivity control portion 13 through the echo cancellation portion 20.
  • the input-output I/F 12 identifies these sound signals every audio conferencing apparatus and gives the sound signals to the sound emission directivity control portion 13 through the echo cancellation portion 20 by respectively different transmission paths.
  • the input-output I/F 12 converts an output sound signal generated by the echo cancellation portion 20 into a data format (protocol) corresponding to a network, and sends the output sound signal to the network through the input-output connector 11.
  • the sound emission directivity control portion 13 Based on specified sound emission directivity, the sound emission directivity control portion 13 performs amplitude processing and delay processing, etc. respectively specific to each of the speakers SP1 to SP16 of the speaker array with respect to the input sound signals and generates individual sound emission signals.
  • the sound emission directivity includes directivity for converging an emission sound in a predetermined position in the longitudinal direction of the audio conferencing apparatus 1 or directivity for setting a virtual point sound source and outputting an emission sound from the virtual point sound source, and the individual sound emission signals in which the directivity is implemented by the emission sounds from the speakers SP1 to SP16 are generated.
  • the sound emission directivity control portion 13 outputs these individual sound emission signals to the D/A converters 14 installed every speakers SP1 to SP16.
  • Each of the D/A converters 14 converts the individual sound emission signal into an analog format and outputs the signal to each of the amplifiers 15 for sound emission, and each of the amplifiers 15 for sound emission amplifies the individual sound emission signal and gives the signal to the speakers SP1 to SP16.
  • the speakers SP1 to SP16 are made of non-directional speakers and make sound conversion of the given individual sound emission signals and emit sounds to the outside.
  • the speakers SP1 to SP16 are installed in the lower surface of the housing 2, so that the emitted sounds are reflected by an installation surface of a desk on which the audio conferencing apparatus 1 is installed, and are propagated from the side of the apparatus in which a conference person is present toward the oblique upper portion.
  • Each of the microphones MIC101 to MIC116 and MIC201 to MIC216 of the microphone arrays may be non-directional or directional, but it is desirable to be directional, and a sound from the outside of the audio conferencing apparatus 1 is collected and electrical conversion is made and a sound collection signal is output to each of the amplifiers 16 for sound collection.
  • Each of the amplifiers 16 for sound collection amplifies the sound collection signal and respectively gives the signals to the A/D converters 17, and the A/D converters 17 make digital conversion of the sound collection signals and output the signals to the sound collection beam generation portions 181, 182.
  • sound collection signals in the microphones MIC101 to MIC116 installed on one longitudinal surface are input to the sound collection beam generation portion 181, and sound collection signals in the microphones MIC201 to MIC216 installed on the other longitudinal surface are input to the sound collection beam generation portion 182.
  • Fig. 4 is a plan diagram showing distribution of sound collection beams MB11 to MB14 and MB21 to MB24 of the audio conferencing apparatus 1 according to the embodiment.
  • the sound collection beam generation portion 181 performs predetermined delay processing etc. with respect to the sound collection signals of each of the microphones MIC101 to MIC116 and generates sound collection beam signals MB11 to MB14.
  • different predetermined regions for the sound collection beam signals MB11 to MB14 are respectively set as the centers of sound collection intensities along the longitudinal surface.
  • the sound collection beam generation portion 182 performs predetermined delay processing etc. on the sound collection signals of each of the microphones MIC201 to MIC216 and generates sound collection beam signals MB21 to MB24.
  • different predetermined regions for the sound collection beam signals MB21 to MB24 are respectively set as the centers of sound collection intensities along the longitudinal surface.
  • the sound collection beam selection portion 19 inputs the sound collection beam signals MB11 to MB14 and MB21 to MB24 and compares signal intensities and selects the sound collection beam signal MB compliant with a predetermined condition preset. For example, when only a sound from one talker is sent to another audio conferencing apparatus, the sound collection beam selection portion 19 selects a sound collection beam signal with the highest signal intensity and outputs the beam signal to the echo cancellation portion 20 as a particular sound collection beam signal MB. When plural sound collection beam signals are required in the case of conducting plural audio conferences in parallel, sound collection beam signals according to its situation are sequentially selected and the respective sound collection beam signals are output to the echo cancellation portion 20 as individual particular sound collection beam signals MB.
  • the sound collection beam selection portion 19 outputs sound collection environment information including a sound collection direction (sound collection directivity) corresponding to the selectedparticular sound collection beam signal MB to the control portion 10. Based on this sound collection environment information, the control portion 10. pinpoints a talker direction and sets sound emission directivity given to the sound emission directivity control portion 13.
  • the echo cancellation portion 20 is made of a structure in which respectively independent echo cancellers 21 to 23 are installed and these echo cancellers are connected in series. That is, an output of the sound collection beam selection portion 19 is input to the echo canceller 21 and an output of the echo canceller 21 is input to the echo canceller 22. Then, an output of the echo canceller 22 is input to the echo canceller 23 and an output of the echo canceller 23 is input to the input-output I/F 12.
  • the echo canceller 21 comprises an adaptive filter 211 and a postprocessor 212.
  • the echo cancellers 22, 23 have the same configuration as that of the echo canceller 21, and respectively comprise adaptive filters 221, 231 and postprocessors 222, 232 (not shown).
  • the adaptive filter 211 of the echo canceller 21 generates a pseudo regression sound signal based on sound collection directivity of the particular sound collection beam signal MB selected and sound emission directivity set for an input sound signal S1.
  • the postprocessor 212 subtracts the pseudo regression sound signal for the input sound signal S1 from the particular sound collection beam signal output from the sound collection beam selection portion 19, and outputs it to the postprocessor 222 of the echo canceller 22.
  • the adaptive filter 221 of the echo canceller 22 generates a pseudo regression sound signal based on sound collection directivity of the particular sound collection beam signal MB selected and sound emission directivity set for an input sound signal S2.
  • the postprocessor 222 subtracts the pseudo regression sound signal for the input sound signal S2 from a first subtraction signal output from the postprocessor 212 of the echo canceller 21, and outputs it to the postprocessor 232 of the echo canceller 23.
  • the adaptive filter 231 of the echo canceller 23 generates a pseudo regression sound signal based on sound collection directivity of the particular sound collection beam signal MB selected and sound emission directivity set for an input sound signal S3.
  • the postprocessor 232 subtracts the pseudo regression sound signal for the input sound signal S3 from a second subtraction signal output from the postprocessor 222 of the echo canceller 22, and outputs the pseudo regression sound signal to the input-output I/F 12 as an output sound signal.
  • any one of the echo cancellers 21 to 23 operates when the input sound signal is one signal, and any two of the echo cancellers 21 to 23 operate when the input sound signal is two signals.
  • the echo cancellation processing is performed after sound emission beam processing and sound collection beam processing are performed, so that a echo sound can be suppressed as compared with the case of comprising a non-directional microphone or the case of comprising a non-directional speaker simply. Further, since it has a structure in which echo is resistant to occurring between a microphone and a speaker as described above mechanistically, an effect of suppressing the echo sound improves more and also occurrence of the echo is mechanistically small, so that a processing load of the echo cancellation processing reduces and an optimum output sound signal can be generated at higher speed.
  • the control portion 10 detects this signal and detects that the number of other audio conferencing apparatuses is one.
  • the sound collection beam selection portion 19 selects the particular sound collection beam signal from each of the sound collection beam signals and also generates sound collection environment information as described above.
  • the control portion 10 acquires the sound collection environment information and detects a talker direction and performs predetermined sound emission directivity control. For example, in the case of making setting in which an emission sound is converged on a talker and the emission sound is not propagated in other regions, the sound emission directivity control of forming a sound emission beam signal converged on the detected talker direction is performed.
  • the sound emission directivity could be controlled by another method.
  • Fig. 5A is a diagram showing the case where one conference person A conducts a conference in the audio conferencing apparatus 1
  • Fig. 5B is a diagram showing the case where two conference persons A, B conduct a conference in the audio conferencing apparatus 1 and the conference person A becomes a talker.
  • the sound collection beam selection portion 19 selects a sound collection beam signal MB13 using a direction of the presence of the conference person A as the center of directivity from sound collection signals, and gives this sound collection environment information to the control portion 10.
  • the control portion 10 detects a direction of the talker. Then, the control portion 10 sets sound emission directivity for emitting a sound in only the direction of the talker A detected as shown in Fig. 5A . Consequently, a sound of an opponent conferences person is emitted to only the talker A and the conference sound can -be prevented from propagating (leaking) in other regions.
  • the sound collection beam selection portion 19 selects a sound collection beam signal MB13 using a direction of the presence of the conference personAas the center of directivity, and gives this sound collection environment information to the control portion 10.
  • the control portion 10 detects a direction of the talker and also stores a talker direction detected before this talker direction and reads out its talker direction and detects the talker direction as a conference person direction. In an example of Fig. 5B , a direction of the conference person B is detected as the conference person direction.
  • control portion 10 sets sound emission directivity in which a virtual point sound source 901 is positioned in the center of a longitudinal direction of the audio conferencing apparatus 1 so as to equally emit a sound in the direction of the conference person B and the direction of the talker A detected as shown in Fig. 5B . Consequently, a sound of an opponent conference person can be equally emitted to the conference person B as well as the talker A at that point in time.
  • the present apparatus can easily conduct this audio conference by simultaneously comprising a speaker array and a microphone array.
  • control portion 10 stores the talker directions and thereby, the control portion 10 reads out the talker directions within a predetermined period before that point in time and can detect the talker direction set mainly.
  • control portion 10 detects that this talker direction is limited, the control portion 10 instructs the sound collection beam selection portion 19 to perform selection processing by only a corresponding sound collection beam signal.
  • the sound collection beam selection portion 19 performs the selection processing by only the corresponding sound collection beam signal according to this instruction and produces an output to the echo cancellation portion 20.
  • the control portion 10 detects this signal and detects that the number of other audio conferencing apparatuses is plural. Then, the control portion 10 sets respectively different positions for each of the audio conferencing apparatuses in virtual point sound sources, and sets sound emission directivity in which each of the input sound signals utters and diverges from the respective virtual point sound sources.
  • Fig. 6A is a conceptual diagram showing a sound emission state of the case of setting three virtual point sound sources.
  • Fig. 6B is a conceptual diagram showing a sound emission state of the case of setting two virtual point sound sources.
  • a solid line shows an emission sound from a virtual point sound source 901 and a broken line shows an emission sound from a virtual point sound source 902 and a two-dot chain line shows an emission sound from a virtual point sound source 903.
  • the virtual point sound sources 901, 902, 903 when there are three input sound signals, the virtual point sound sources 901, 902, 903 according to the respective input sound signals are set as shown in Fig. 6A .
  • the virtual point sound sources 901, 903 are associated with both the opposed ends of a longitudinal direction of the housing 1 and the virtual point sound source 902 is associated with the center of the longitudinal direction of the housing 1.
  • sound emission directivity is set and an individual sound emission signal of each of the speakers SP1 to SP16 is generated by delay control and amplitude control, etc. in the sound emission directivity control portion 13. Then, the speakers SP1 to SP16 emit the individual sound emission signals and thereby, a state of respectively uttering sounds from the virtual point sound sources 901 to 903 of three different places can be formed.
  • the virtual point sound sources 901, 902 when there are two input sound signals, the virtual point sound sources 901, 902 according to the respective input sound signals are set as shown in Fig. 6B .
  • the virtual point sound sources 901, 902 are associated with both the opposed ends of a longitudinal direction of the housing 1. Based on this setting, sound emission directivity is set and thereby, a state of respectively uttering sounds from the virtual point sound sources 901, 902 of two different places can be formed in turn.
  • positions of these virtual point sound sources may be preset in fixed positions.
  • the control portion 10 detects this signal and detects that the number of other audio conferencing apparatuses is plural.
  • the control portion 10 detects and stores a signal intensity of each of the input sound signals and detects a history of each of the input sound signals.
  • the history of the input sound signal is a history detected whether or not to have a predetermined signal intensity, and corresponds to the fact as to whether conversation is actually conducted.
  • the control portion 10 detects a history of a talker direction based on sound collection environment information stored. The control portion 10 compares the history of the input sound signal with the history of the talker direction and detects a correlation between the input sound signal and the talker direction.
  • Fig. 7 is a diagram showing a situation in which two conference persons A, B respectively conduct conversation with a different audio conferencing apparatus using one audio conferencing apparatus 1, and block arrows of Fig. 7 show sound emission beams 801, 802. Then, Fig. 7 shows the case where the conference person A converses with an audio conferencing apparatus corresponding to an input sound signal S1 and the conference person B converses with another audio conferencing apparatus corresponding to an input sound signal S2.
  • the conference personA utters a sound in a formof responding to sound emission by the input sound signal S1 and the conference person B utters a sound in a form of responding to sound emission by the input sound signal S2.
  • a signal intensity of a sound collection beam signal MB13 becomes high at approximately the same time as the end of a period during which the input sound signal S1 has a predetermined signal intensity.
  • the signal intensity of the input sound signal S1 again becomes high at approximately the same time as the case where the signal intensity of the sound collection beam signal MB13 becomes low.
  • a signal intensity of a sound collection beam signal MB21 becomes high at approximately the same time as the end of a period during which the input sound signal S2 has a predetermined signal intensity. Then, the signal intensity of the input sound signal S2 again becomes high at approximately the same time as the case where the signal intensity of the sound collection beam signal MB21 becomes low.
  • the control portion 10 detects a change in this signal intensity and associates the input sound signal S1 with the conference person A and associates the input sound signal S2 with the conference person B. Then, the control portion 10 sets sound emission directivity in which the input sound signal S1 is emitted to only the conference person A and the input sound signal S2 is emitted to only the conference person B. As a result of this, a sound from an opponent of the side of the conference person A cannot hear the conference person B and a sound from an opponent of the side of the conference person B cannot hear the conference person A.
  • the control portion 10 instructs the sound collection beam selection portion 19 to perform selection processing of a sound collection beam signal every sound collection beam signal group respectively corresponding to each of the input sound signals S1, S2.
  • the sound collection beam selection portion 19 performs the selection processing described above on sound collection beam signals MB11 to MB14 by microphones MIC101 to MIC116 of the side in which the conference person A is present and also, performs the selection processing described above on sound collection beam signals MB21 to MB24 by microphones MIC201 toMIC216 of the side in which the conference person B is present. Then, the sound collection beam selection portion 19 outputs the respectively selected sound collection beam signals to the echo cancellation portion 20 as particular sound collection beam signals respectively corresponding to the input sound signals S1, S2.
  • echo cancellation processing of the particular sound collection beam signals corresponding to each of the conference persons A, B is sequentially performed and output sound signals are generated and in the input-output I/F 12, data for specifying sending destinations are attached to the respective output sound signals. Consequently, an utterance sound of the conference person A is not sent to an opponent of the side of the conference person B, and an utterance sound of the side of the conference person B is not sent to an opponent of the side of the conference person A. Consequently, the conference persons A, B can individually conduct audio communication with a conference person of the other audio conferencing apparatus side different mutually while using the same audio conferencing apparatus 1 and further can conduct conferences in parallel without interfering mutually. Then, such plural conferences in parallel can easily be implemented by using the configuration of the embodiment.
  • control portion 10 automatically makes sound emission and sound collection settings is shown, but itmaybe constructed so that the operationportion 4 is operated and a conference person manually makes sound emission and sound collection settings.
  • a voice switch 24 may be used as shown in Fig. 8 .
  • Fig. 8 is a functional block diagram of an audio conferencing apparatus using the voice switch 24.
  • the audio conferencing apparatus 1 shown in Fig. 8 is an apparatus in which the echo cancellation portion 20 of the audio conferencing apparatus 1 shown in Fig. 3 is replaced with the voice switch 24, and the other configurations are the same.
  • the voice switch 24 comprises a comparison circuit 25, an input side variable loss circuit 26 and an output side variable loss circuit 27.
  • the comparison circuit 25 inputs input sound signals S1 to S3 and a particular sound collection beam signal MB, and compares signal levels (amplitude intensities) of the input sound signals S1 to S3 with a signal level of the particular sound collection beam signal MB.
  • the comparison circuit 25 detects that the signal levels of the input sound signals S1 to S3 are higher than the signal level of the particular sound collection beam signal MB, it decides that a conference person of the audio conferencing apparatus 1 is mainly receiving speech, and reduction control is performed to the output side variable loss circuit 27.
  • the output side variable loss circuit 27 reduces the signal level of the particular sound collection beam signal MB according to this reduction control, and outputs it to an input-output I/F 12 as an output sound signal.
  • the input side variable loss circuit 26 comprises individual variable loss circuits 261 to 263 for respectively performing variablelossprocessing with respect to the input sound signals S1 to S3, and by these individual variable loss circuits 261 to 263, the signal levels of the input sound signals S1 to S3 are reduced and are given to a sound emission directivity control portion 13.
  • an output sound level is suppressed even when echo occurs from a speaker array to a microphone array at the time of receiving speech mainly, so that a receiving speech sound (input sound signal) can be prevented from being sent to an opponent audio conferencing apparatus.
  • a sound emitted from the speaker array is suppressed at the time of sending speech, so that a sound diffracted to the microphone array is reduced and the receiving speech sound (input sound signal) can be prevented from being sent to the opponent audio conferencing apparatus.

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